About us

Currie & Brown is an asset management and construction consultancy driven by innovation. We are global in our reach and office network, but also local in our delivery and relationships. Currie & Brown is unique. Over the years we have grown our services, expertise and capabilities to meet the needs of our clients while also providing added value at every opportunity.

Our global services

Physical assets have complex uses and integrated lifecycles. Currie & Brown reflects this by offering services addressing every aspect, from concept, design and construction through to the assessment of best-value options for ongoing use, maintenance and operation.

Our global industries

Each project has its own unique characteristics. At Currie & Brown, we recognise such differences and have established specialist teams to ensure that our client solutions ideally balance technical knowledge and capability with sector expertise.

Our locations

The Currie & Brown approach is founded on collaborative working to achieve exceptional results. We have grown our network of offices globally to maintain close relationships with our clients while continuously strengthening our understanding of local and regional markets, regulations and business practices.

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UK gender pay statement

Currie & Brown believes in fair and equitable treatment for all employees and for all applicants for employment. We are committed to make full use of the talents and resources of all employees and to provide an environment which will encourage good and productive working relationships throughout the company.

Equal pay for equal jobs

As a physical assets management and construction consultancy, the majority of our staff are in technical positions, and therefore conduct roles that are similar in nature within each grade. While experience in post, or niche skills, will see small pay deviances, our remuneration strategy recognises the need for a consistent framework around how we pay our staff.

Our pay and benefits are, therefore, reviewed at the most senior level in our organisation, to ensure we reward people fairly and competitively.

There is a GPG at professional and senior professional level, as a result of the increased volumes of females joining our business in recent years through our graduate scheme. As these staff progress to chartership and become newly promoted, their salary is being compared with individuals with two or three years’ more experience in a comparable position.

There is also a GPG at associate director and director level which is reflective of the small sample size distorting the statistics, particular at director level where over half of the sample have been recently promoted and are therefore at the lower end of our pay bracket for this level.

Gender pay analysis of technical staff

Assistant level

Females earn 4.8% more than males

Professional level

Males earn 13.0% more than females

Senior professional level

Males earn 7.6% more than females

Associate level

Females earn 2.2% more than males

Associate director level

Males earn 7.8% more than females

Director level

Males earn 15.6% more than females

Having a transparent structure is important to our organisation. Currie & Brown operates a competency framework, visible to every member of staff across our global business. This framework explains clearly the skills and behaviours which are expected of staff at all levels and ensures that requests for promotions and pay rises are judged solely against performance against this matrix.

No promotion or pay review can take place without supporting information giving context to the proposal. Our group chief executive officer and group people director review the pay recommendations of every single individual in the organisation and ensure pay and promotional decisions are based purely on performance, and do not give rise to any gender pay imbalance. Our focus is designed to remove any subjectivity or unconscious bias that may take place regarding internal recruitment and promotions.

Tackling the under-representation in the industry

Currie & Brown has a commitment, not just to equal pay and a culture of meritocracy, but also to addressing the under-representation of women in our industry.

Within the construction industry, there has been a notable lack of female entrants. RICS data from 2018 demonstrates that of all undergraduate and postgraduate entrants to quantity surveying courses, only 21% were female.

We continue to tackle the longer-term under-representation of women in the industry by continuing our commitment to recruit and train apprentices and graduates, with 33% of our graduates who started in 2019 being female.

We wish to go further as a company to address this imbalance. Our recruitment of graduates is now focused around non-cognate hires. Not only does this give us a broader and more diverse pool of applicants, but it also means we are able to select the very best individuals, rather than solely those who had done degrees in the disciplines in which we work.

As well as this approach to non-cognate graduates, we have also revised how we attract females into our business at all levels. Currie & Brown has relaunched our flexible working policy, designed to ensure that we offer encouragement for part-time and home workers, to help us redress the lackof balance in males/females.

We also operate a mentoring programme, ensuring positive role models and support for our staff. Over 25% of our females are mentors or mentored, the same percentage as our male staff.

Gender pay reporting

Our statutory obligation is to report on specific metrics for gender pay. These statistics reflect a notably different picture than those that only focus on technical staff. As with many organisations in our sector, our support functions are predominantly female, in roles that tend to carry a lower salary which distorts our statistics. We continue, therefore, to review jobs on a ‘like-for-like’ basis, committed to ensuring that pay and benefits decisions are based solely upon work undertaken, rather than any form of unconscious bias.

Ordinary/hourly pay

The mean female GPG in hourly pay as a % of men’s pay: 59.7%

The median female GPG in hourly pay as a % of men’s pay is: 60.7%

Bonus pay

The % of females who were paid bonuses: 14.72%

The % of males who were paid bonuses: 16.19%

The mean female bonus is 39% lower than men’s

The median female bonus is 40% lower than men’s

It is noted that those who are directors and above who are included within Currie & Brown’s bonus scheme are predominantly male. Our bonus scheme rules incorporate a discretionary element to employees at all levels in the business, providing KPIs are achieved. This is designed to help us balance out the fact that a number of our females are not at director level currently.

GPG quartile figures

Upper quartile pay is made up of 94% male staff and 6% female staff

Upper middle quartile pay is made up of 87% male staff and 13% female staff

Lower middle quartile pay is made up of 68% male staff and 32% female staff

Our global services

Physical assets have complex uses and integrated lifecycles. Currie & Brown reflects this by offering services addressing every aspect, from concept, design and construction through to the assessment of best-value options for ongoing use, maintenance and operation.

Our global industries

Each project has its own unique characteristics. At Currie & Brown, we recognise such differences and have established specialist teams to ensure that our client solutions ideally balance technical knowledge and capability with sector expertise.

Our locations

The Currie & Brown approach is founded on collaborative working to achieve exceptional results. We have grown our network of offices globally to maintain close relationships with our clients while continuously strengthening our understanding of local and regional markets, regulations and business practices.

Looking after your data

Thank you for your enquiry. We believe strongly in protecting your privacy. If you are sending us a CV please send it to us via our recruitment pages which can be found here. Our privacy policy explains what information we gather about you, what we use that information for, and who we give that information to. It also sets out our rights in relation to your information and who you can contact for further information or queries. Our full privacy policy can be found here